SCALE 9X, Day 2.0: Sunday morning coming down

Yeah, it’s the last day, but there’s no reason why you can’t join in. Registration is still open for SCALE 9X — register now by clicking on the winking penguin. Better do it quick, though — SCALE 9X wraps up at the end of the day.!

First on the to-do list when I get home: Lobby the legislature to make days longer; 36 hours apiece, maybe. The reason is that I can never get enough things done during the course of a 24-hour day, especially where shows like SCALE 9X are involved.

As for Saturday, SCALE 9X was — in the words of Jim Rome — “phenomenal,” and it appears that Sunday is looking pretty good, too. The Fedora booth was well attended and superbly staffed — Tom Callaway, Alex Acosta, Robyn Bergeron and Scott Williams (and, of course, yours truly) — and with a team like that in a booth, you can be sure that Fedora is putting its best face forward.

SCALE 9X is in a bigger venue this year, with more booths, however the “traffic” problem that has been an issue in years past at the Westin was not evident. In fact, the masses of people descending locust-like onto booths were not as cramped as in years past, and the fact that nearly 1,700 badges were made — for those of you keeping score at home, those are the people who paid and attended — attest to the fact that SCALE and the Hilton may be doing more business for years to come.

Another point that needs magnifying is the wireless at SCALE 9X. With a couple of hiccups, the wireless has been very good at the show overall. Bear in mind that when you have 1,700 geeks running around with wireless capability, you’re going to have glitches mostly borne of heavy use. For those of you who don’t get that, and have blasted the show because you couldn’t get on line at one particular point or another, you need to reassess this.

Again, with my duties as a Fedora booth babe and a SCALE official, I didn’t have the time to be one of the aforementioned locust, but I’m hoping that the typically slower pace of the show on Sunday will lend itself to some swag runs. In addition. I’ll report back with the best swag of the show in a later missive.

Time to suit up in my hockey jersey . . . .

(Fedora ambassador Larry Cafiero runs Redwood Digital Research in Felton, California, and is an associate member of the Free Software Foundation. He is also one of the founders of the Lindependence Project.)